Tag: DIY

The pi-top converts your Raspberry Pi into a complete RPi notebook. by René Bohne @ elektormagazine.com It comes as a nice kit that is very easy to assemble thanks to a great construction manual. We created a video of the assembly. If you have any questions, feel free to leave...

A DIY USB power bank made from an old laptop battery @ DoItYourselfGadgets: A situation many can relate to: an empty smartphone battery and no outlet around! That’s exactly why I recycled an old laptop battery into an USB power bank. This article will show you the basic powerbank...

Henrik Forstén has done amazing job designing a homemade vector analyzer with the goal to fit it's budget of 200EUR. The design is open source and available on github. Vector network analyzer (VNA) are used to measure scattering parameters of high frequency circuits. When frequency...

Saulius made a DIY PCB inspection microscope and wrote a post on his blog about it: Despite how good microscope you have, stand is still very important part of final assembly. And while there are many commercial ones made of cast iron, they might cost more than a microscope head...

Alistair Samuelson uses open source code to track the blood sugar levels of his son George. by Zoe Kleinman @ bbc.com: Frustrated with traditional monitoring and its risks, Mr Samuelson and George have since joined a growing group of T1 sufferers who are building their own solutions...

TC-Engineering has documented their efforts to program a Spartan 6 FPGA using a DIY PCB. The hardware part and software are discussed on the link below. I’ve been thinking about building stuff with FPGA’s for a while, and usually get turned away because FPGA’s are considerably...

Digikey has launched a new website for the maker and DIY world. The aim of this new website is to help people take their ideas from concept to product by providing the tools and resources on every step of the process. Maker.io was created to help makers understand the phases that...

Davide Gironi demonstrates his DIY A4 laser engraver made from a scanner and a printer using ATmega328: This “Get Ready For Win98″ Laser Engraving Machine it’s built using an old scanner, and an old printer. A laser engraving machine is a tool that uses lasers to engrave an...